let's get to jeff sessions from alabama. ranking member of the budget committee. >> soledad, nice to be with you. >> appreciate that. is that a fair read, the quieter it gets means more is getting done. when they are saying nothing, it means we're close to a deal? >> you know, when we are reading tea levels a tea leaves and that's all we have, that's how bad it is. it looks like the president and the speaker of the house will decide this on christmas or new year's eve and plopped down in congress and we'll be told to vote for it or have a national crisis. this should have been done in public, been talking about this for months, it should have been openly done. american people observing what's going on. honestly, not a good way to do business. >> everybody has an opportunity to run to the tv cameras and have their own teams puttous press releases, because the conversation gets derailed by the pr agenda, if you will, in that. and that's why you have to have behind closed door meetings, because at least everybody shuts up with